Add interest to the home office on a modest budget by turning a door into a desk.
Materials:
hollow core door-without door knob hole
file cabinets
base coat paint: Macadamia
translucent glazes: Mocha and Burnt Sienna
roller or nylon brush
colorwash brush
softening brush
Steps for the door:
- Paint the sides and edges of the door with a base coat one of Macadamia, and let it dry.
- Load the colorwash brush with Mocha glaze, and paint X's on the door with short stokes. Cover the entire surface while blending and overlapping the strokes, getting as much paint off the brush as possible.
- Do not let the glaze dry. Dip the same brush into the Burnt Sienna glaze, and paint more X's sporadically on the door so the different colors blend together evenly.
- Without loading the brush with any more glaze, go back and forth over the entire door, blending the colors to create a two-tone colorwash.
- Do not let it dry. Using a clean softening brush, gently wipe over the surface to soften the finish and to create more depth.
- To soften the look even more, roll up a clean, dry paper towel and gently dab it on the wet glaze to give it a cloud-like look.
- After the door has completely dried, create an inexpensive desk by placing it on top of two short filing cabinets.
Use wooden boxes as desk accessories. Paint them with a base coat of Macadamia, and let dry. Finish the boxes with one of the two following methods:
- Crumple a clean, dry paper towel into a ball, dab it into a colored glaze, and dab the color over the entire box.
- Place some colored glaze onto the paintbrush, and paint a small amount onto the box. Drag a paint combing tool or a regular hair comb through the glaze to achieve the desired effect.
Resources Valspar Decorative Effects paint
The Valspar Corporation
Website:
www.valspar.com
Guests Leslie Linsley
Design Expert, Columnist & Author, Leslie Linsley Enterprises
Nantucket, MA
Phone: 508-325-4900
Fax: 508-325-5836
E-mail:
leslie@leslielinsley.com
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